Azure Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 26 20
Rank change year-on-year +10 -6 -13
Contract jobs citing Azure 103 14 40
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 12.23% 5.04% 9.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.10% 19.18% 36.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 11 34
10th Percentile £318 £481 £186
25th Percentile £435 £488 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £520 £583
Median % change year-on-year -2.88% -10.73% -2.92%
75th Percentile £569 £625 £664
90th Percentile £688 £650 £1,038
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -9.09%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Yorkshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 354 73 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 42.04% 26.26% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 50 88
10th Percentile £312 £353 £310
25th Percentile £413 £453 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £525 £556
Median % change year-on-year -8.19% -5.49% +1.00%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £609
90th Percentile £613 £653 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.53% -5.00% -4.76%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Azure job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 18 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield +6 99 £505 -2.88% 32
Doncaster - 3 £413 - 27
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (6.80%) Confluence
2 5 (4.85%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.94%) CICS
3 2 (1.94%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.94%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.97%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.97%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.97%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.97%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.97%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 73 (70.87%) AWS
2 64 (62.14%) GCP
3 19 (18.45%) Entra ID
4 14 (13.59%) OpenShift
5 10 (9.71%) GitHub
6 9 (8.74%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (6.80%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (6.80%) Power Platform
7 7 (6.80%) SaaS
8 6 (5.83%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (4.85%) OneDrive
10 4 (3.88%) Akamai
10 4 (3.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (2.91%) Azure AKS
11 3 (2.91%) Cloudflare
11 3 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (1.94%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (1.94%) Collibra
12 2 (1.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (14.56%) Firewall
2 8 (7.77%) DNS
3 6 (5.83%) TCP/IP
4 5 (4.85%) VPN
5 4 (3.88%) HTTP
5 4 (3.88%) Kerberos
6 3 (2.91%) HTTPS
7 2 (1.94%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (1.94%) iSCSI
7 2 (1.94%) LAN
7 2 (1.94%) NAS
7 2 (1.94%) Network Security
7 2 (1.94%) SAN
7 2 (1.94%) SSL
7 2 (1.94%) VSAN
7 2 (1.94%) WAN
8 1 (0.97%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (0.97%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 1 (0.97%) FCoE
8 1 (0.97%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.68%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (6.80%) Power BI
2 7 (6.80%) SQL Server
3 6 (5.83%) MySQL
4 4 (3.88%) Metadata
4 4 (3.88%) Neo4j
5 3 (2.91%) BigQuery
5 3 (2.91%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.91%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.94%) DataStage
6 2 (1.94%) DB2
7 1 (0.97%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.97%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.97%) Redis
7 1 (0.97%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.97%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (31.07%) Jenkins
2 25 (24.27%) JIRA
3 23 (22.33%) GitLab
4 15 (14.56%) Selenium
5 11 (10.68%) Cucumber
5 11 (10.68%) Postman
5 11 (10.68%) REST Assured
6 9 (8.74%) Git
7 5 (4.85%) TestRail
8 4 (3.88%) Gatling
8 4 (3.88%) JMeter
8 4 (3.88%) LoadRunner
8 4 (3.88%) NeoLoad
9 3 (2.91%) CircleCI
9 3 (2.91%) JUnit
10 2 (1.94%) SoapUI
10 2 (1.94%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.94%) TestNG
10 2 (1.94%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 44 (42.72%) Social Skills
2 22 (21.36%) Finance
3 18 (17.48%) Banking
4 7 (6.80%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.85%) Law
6 5 (4.85%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.94%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.94%) Legal
7 2 (1.94%) Police
8 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.97%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.97%) Private Banking
8 1 (0.97%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (16.50%) Architect
2 15 (14.56%) Lead
3 9 (8.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (8.74%) Test Automation Engineer
3 9 (8.74%) Test Engineer
4 8 (7.77%) Developer
5 6 (5.83%) Automation Test Lead
5 6 (5.83%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (4.85%) Consultant
6 5 (4.85%) Senior
7 4 (3.88%) Analyst
7 4 (3.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 4 (3.88%) Lead Architect
7 4 (3.88%) Product Owner
7 4 (3.88%) Test Architect
7 4 (3.88%) Test Automation Architect
7 4 (3.88%) Test Leader
8 3 (2.91%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (2.91%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (2.91%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (23.30%) LDAP
2 23 (22.33%) REST
3 20 (19.42%) OpenID
4 16 (15.53%) SailPoint
5 8 (7.77%) Middleware
6 7 (6.80%) .NET
6 7 (6.80%) OAuth
7 6 (5.83%) SAML
8 5 (4.85%) Kafka
9 4 (3.88%) JSON
9 4 (3.88%) Playwright
9 4 (3.88%) Regular Expression
9 4 (3.88%) XML
10 3 (2.91%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Graph
10 3 (2.91%) OpenCV
10 3 (2.91%) PyTorch
10 3 (2.91%) RESTful
10 3 (2.91%) SpaCy
10 3 (2.91%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.65%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.68%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (8.74%) Product Ownership
4 8 (7.77%) Onboarding
5 7 (6.80%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.88%) IoT
7 3 (2.91%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.91%) Replication
7 3 (2.91%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.94%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.94%) Clustering
8 2 (1.94%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.94%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.97%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.97%) FMCG
9 1 (0.97%) IBM Mainframe
9 1 (0.97%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.97%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.65%) Linux
2 9 (8.74%) Windows
3 4 (3.88%) Unix
4 2 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.94%) Solaris
4 2 (1.94%) VMS
4 2 (1.94%) zOS
5 1 (0.97%) CentOS
5 1 (0.97%) MVS
5 1 (0.97%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.97%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (50.49%) DevOps
2 48 (46.60%) CI/CD
3 25 (24.27%) Agile
4 24 (23.30%) Test Automation
5 23 (22.33%) Containerisation
6 18 (17.48%) Infrastructure as Code
7 17 (16.50%) Roadmaps
7 17 (16.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 16 (15.53%) Identity Access Management
8 16 (15.53%) Migration
9 15 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (14.56%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (13.59%) API Testing
10 14 (13.59%) ETL
11 13 (12.62%) Data Ingestion
11 13 (12.62%) Test Strategy
12 12 (11.65%) GitOps
12 12 (11.65%) Root Cause Analysis
13 11 (10.68%) Cybersecurity
13 11 (10.68%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 33 (32.04%) Java
2 32 (31.07%) Python
3 25 (24.27%) SQL
4 11 (10.68%) PowerShell
5 9 (8.74%) Bash
6 6 (5.83%) JavaScript
6 6 (5.83%) PHP
7 4 (3.88%) Cypher
7 4 (3.88%) Groovy
7 4 (3.88%) Scala
7 4 (3.88%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.91%) Go
9 2 (1.94%) Bicep
9 2 (1.94%) C#
9 2 (1.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (3.88%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.91%) CEH
2 3 (2.91%) Degree
2 3 (2.91%) GIAC
2 3 (2.91%) GWAPT
2 3 (2.91%) ISTQB
2 3 (2.91%) SAP Certification
3 2 (1.94%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.94%) CISM
3 2 (1.94%) CISSP
3 2 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (0.97%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.97%) CCA
4 1 (0.97%) CCSK
4 1 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.97%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (0.97%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.68%) QA
2 4 (3.88%) SLA
3 3 (2.91%) GDPR
3 3 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.94%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.94%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.97%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.97%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.97%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.97%) NIST
5 1 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (14.56%) Docker
2 12 (11.65%) Active Directory
3 6 (5.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (4.85%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 4 (3.88%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.91%) Hyper-V
6 3 (2.91%) KVM
7 2 (1.94%) NFS
7 2 (1.94%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.94%) vSphere
8 1 (0.97%) Ceph
8 1 (0.97%) QEMU
8 1 (0.97%) Snort
8 1 (0.97%) SRDF
8 1 (0.97%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.97%) Xen
8 1 (0.97%) XenApp
8 1 (0.97%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 32 (31.07%) Kubernetes
2 26 (25.24%) Terraform
3 23 (22.33%) Ansible
4 8 (7.77%) Grafana
5 4 (3.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (3.88%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.94%) Argo
6 2 (1.94%) CSIRT
6 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.94%) Puppet
6 2 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.97%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.97%) Kibana
7 1 (0.97%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.97%) logstash
7 1 (0.97%) Podman
7 1 (0.97%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.97%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 19 (18.45%) Microsoft
2 18 (17.48%) ServiceNow
3 16 (15.53%) Google
4 14 (13.59%) F5
5 10 (9.71%) Oracle
6 6 (5.83%) Splunk
6 6 (5.83%) VMware
7 5 (4.85%) Cisco
8 4 (3.88%) Imperva
8 4 (3.88%) NetApp
8 4 (3.88%) SAP
9 3 (2.91%) AppDynamics
9 3 (2.91%) EMC
9 3 (2.91%) MuleSoft
9 3 (2.91%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.94%) Alibaba
10 2 (1.94%) Delphix
10 2 (1.94%) IBM
10 2 (1.94%) Informatica
10 2 (1.94%) Red Hat